In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the
Delo
Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet. It arose not from some
academic study but from their experiences in the 1917 Russian revolution. They had taken part in the overthrow of the old ruling class, had been part of
the blossoming of workers' and peasants' self-management, had shared the widespread optimism about a new world of socialism and freedom . . . and
had seen its bloody replacement by State Capitalism and the Bolshevik Party dictatorship.